*Business is doing it's best to sabotage the Kyoto accord, and they're setting their sights on the whole enchelada, the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg (end of August). Did you know that it's actually official policy of the Chilean government that "no investment project will be blocked on environmental grounds"? War on terrorism, war on coloured people, war on workers, war on the poor, war on women and children ... war on anything that doesn't think like a spreadsheet!*

Delegates will include members of grassroots organizations, major Canadian NGOs and members of the public. Presented by the the Kingston Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) & the Sierra Club of Canada.

Goals:

provide opportunities for networking among Canadian citizens actively participating in the environmental movement.

initiate a citizens’ agenda for positive environmental change in the future

prepare recommendations for all levels of government that will aid in the movement towards a more sustainable society

The meeting will feed recommendations into the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) as well as to the G-8 Kannaskis meetings."